Hi Joey, glad to hear you are still going ok, aside from the obvoius problems along the way (yeast/parasites etc). No surprise, lipoic acid will do it.

It's really hard to keep yeast down PLUS chelate at the sametime with either DMSA or Lipoic acid and it's a balancing act, so I guess all you can do is concentrate hard on the diet and not provide any foods for these things in that area, plus possibly using a probiotic if you feel you need one.

But not much you can do when you're chelating with something that can feed yeast. It maybe something you will have to tolerate to a certain extent. You might also need to extend your days off from the chelator, to give your body a chance to reduce yeast levels more before starting another round.

You can take some form of natural antifungal if you want, but I'm sure yo'uve heard the risks to this. If you have yeast that has absorbed mercury, antifungals can be highly risky because they kill yeast on contact by splitting the cell walls open and thereby, releasing not only the contents of the dead yeast, but also any heavy metals contained within, which can then go into your blood stream and poison you.

I have heard it can be downright dangerous in some cases. But again, yeast is also bad too. Some do use something like oregano oil for candida, which can help, but again, the risk with any antifungal is the release of mercury.

However, if a person has a very bad yeast problem, they may not have much choice but to get onto some form of antifungal to kill the yeast and to keep levels down.

If you do take antifungals and happen to release a lot of heavy metal, you would be wise to stop the ALA and use DMSA instead for a while to bring the blood levels of mercury back down again for a while.